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I've owned since the late 70's a 1968 F-412, and I love it. About a year ago, though, I began playing with some friends who own high-end Taylor and Martin rosewood guitars (6-string, not 12), and I'm becoming very fond of the tone from those guitars. Having a vintage Guild 12 I guess I've just assumed that if I were move to a Guild rosewood 12, that I would want to find a vintage 512 or JF55. Clearly, I'd want to play the new guitar first, and I've been watching the local (Milwaukee) area, but only 1 vintage 512 (a '76) has come up for sale within easy driving distance, and that one sold less than 12 hours after it first appeared on Reverb, so I never got to play it. Now I see a 2019 F-512 up for sale at a store about 90 minutes away, and that's the closest I've been to a Guild rosewood 12 since the idea of a switch first came into my head. Am I wrong to have assumed that a vintage 512 (in good shape, of course) will automatically be a better guitar than the new one? Or, to put it another way, what are the pros and cons of a vintage 512 or JF55 vs. the new 512? Thanks, all.